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Alexander Golts
Alexander Golts is an independent military analyst and deputy editor of Yezhednevny Zhurnal.
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The Tails Wagging the Kremlin Dog?
Alexander Golts Series: A Window on Russia 2009-08-28In order to compensate for its growing inferiority complex, Russia has cobbled together the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which, by its title and constitutional principles, is a parody of NATO. And, true to parodic form, it is Russia's partners - the former Soviet Republics - that clearly have the upper hand.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 14296
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Russia's Incompetent War on Terror
Alexander Golts Series: A Window on Russia 2004-09-14In response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him. As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 19687
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Russia's Nostalgic Generals
Alexander Golts Series: A Window on Russia 2003-07-08Generals everywhere are mocked for wanting to fight new wars the same way they fought the last one. Russia's military leaders--indeed, much of its foreign policy elite--is stuck in a similar rut. Both generals and diplomats are finding it hard to move beyond Cold War thinking, and their retrograde posture is hindering President Putin's efforts to push the country in a new direction. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13805
